Dimensions
136 x 124 x 18mm
2 x CD
Syndey 1788 - 1792.
The first five years of European settlement in Australia told from original journals, diaries and letters home.
"Tis now about two years and three months since we first arrived at this distant country; all this while we have been as it were buried alive our hopes are now almost vanished." Reverend Richard Johnson 9 April 1790. How did a collection of petty criminals, the outcasts of an old society, manage to establish a new society on the other side of the world? Buried Alive tells their story through original journals, diaries and letters home. They chronicle the often surprising relationship with the Aboriginal people, the hunger when store ships failed to arrive, the horrors of hangings and floggings, the intermarriage between officer and convict women and the gradual development of Sydney Cove.
